Presentation given June 5th, 2010 on setting up a Wordpress site from scratch.

1. Getting Started With Wordpress Building a Wordpress Site From Scratch Prepared by: Rob Heller – June 5th, 2010

2. On The Subject Of Me Creative Director, UI Architect Graduate of RIT, NY 2005 Experience in Print, Web, Interactive, Video, Audio, & Application Development Founded SDGD, Nov 2009 2 Clients: Johnson & Johnson Heidelberg ESPN Jello Edwards Lifesciences Hoya Surgical Optics Lumenis Glaukos

3. Choosing the right CMS 3

4. Understanding How It All Works Hosting Server FTP Connection Database MySQL 4

5. A Little Preparation Three sets of logins: MySQL Database FTP Account Wordpress Admin 5

6. Select An FTP Program Transmit FileZilla 6

7. Wordpress Setup & Installation Piece of cake!

8. Step 1: Download & Unzip the Latest Build www.wordpress.org 8

9. Step 2: Edit wp-config-sample.php Rename file to wp-config.php Open in a text editor and fill out the database and security info Save and close 9

10. Step 3: Upload To Your Site’s FTP Upload it! 10

11. Step 4: Run the Wordpress Install Access your website and fill out the necessary fields to install 11

12. A Few Quick Tweaks Universal Changes That Will Help You Out

14. Update your slogan

15. Set the permalinks

16. Find a theme!

17. Find some plugins!13

18. Thank You! Questions? Comments? Contact me anytime: rob@robheller.com